A new approach to contour detection in X-ray arteriograms: The wavecontour

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 514-520

  Janssen, Johannes P ^a   Koning, Gerhard ^a   De Koning, Patrick J H ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^a   Tuinenburg, Joan C ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^a   Janssen, Jasper ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contour detection; QCA; QVA; Wavecontour; Wavefront propagation; X ray

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTOUR DETECTION; DETECTION THRESHOLD; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHANTOM; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAVECONTOUR METHOD; WAVEFORM; WAVEFRONT PROPAGATION THEORY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 22844443516     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000170811.71023.6e     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Reiber JHC, Serruys PW. Quantitative Coronary Arteriography. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1991.
2. Reiber JHC, Serruys PW. Quantitative coronary arteriography. In: Marcus ML, Skorton DJ, Scheiben HR, Wolf GL, eds. Cardiac Imaging. Philidelphia: Saunders; 1991:211-281.
3. Reiber JHC, van der Zwet PMJ, von Land CD. Quantitative coronary arteriography: equipment and technical requirements. In: Reiber JHC, Serruys PW, eds. Advances in Quantitative Coronary Arteriography. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1992:75-111.
4. Reiber JHC, Serruys PW, Kooijman CJ, et al. Assessment of short-, medium-, and long-term variations in arterial dimensions from computer-assisted quantitation of coronary cineangiograms. Circulation. 1985;71: 280-288.
5. van der Zwei PMJ, von Land CD, Loois G, et al. An on-line system for the quantitative analysis of coronary arterial segments. Comput Cardiol. 1990;157-160.
6. van Assen HC, Vasbinder B, Stoel BC, et al. Quantitative assessment of the morphology of renal arteries from x-ray images; quantitative vascular analysis (QVA). Invest Radiol. 2004;39:365-373.
7. Janssen JP, Koning G, de Koning PJH. et al. A novel approach for the detection of pathlines in x-ray angiograms: the wavefront propagation algorithm. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2002;18:317-324.
8. Janssen JP, Koning G, de Koning PJH, et al. Validation of a new method for the detection of pathlines in vascular X-ray images. Invest Radiol. 2004;39:524-530.
9. van der Zwei PMJ, Reiber JHC. A new approach for the quantification of complex lesion morphology: the gradient field transform; basic principles and validation results. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1994;24:216-224.
10. Leiner T, Kessels AG, Schurink GW, et al. Comparison of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography and digital subtraction angiography in patients with chronic critical ischemia and tissue loss. Invest Radiol. 2004;39:435-444.
11. Lefevre T, Louvard Y, Morice MC, et al. Stenting of bifurcation lesions: classification, treatments, and results. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2000; 49:274-283.
12. Louvard Y, Lefevre T, Morice MC. Percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation coronary disease. Heart. 2004;90:713-722.
13. Haasse J, DiMario C, Slager CJ, et al. In Vivo validation of on-line and offline geometric coronary measurements using insertion of stenosis phantoms in porcine coronary arteries. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn. 1992; 27:16-27.
14. Kirkeeide RL, Fung P, Smalling RW, et al. Automated evaluation of vessel diameter from arteriograms. Comput Cardiol. 1982;215-218.
15. Kruger RA. Estimation of the diameter of an iodine concentration within blood vessels using digital radiography devices. Med Phys. 1981;8:652-658.
16. Simons MA, Kruger RA, Power RL. Cross-sectional area measurements by digital subtraction videodensitometry. Invest Radiol. 1986;8:637-644.
17. Westenberg JJM, van der Geest RJ, Wasser MNJM, et al. Vessel diameter measurements in gadolinium contrast enhanced three-dimensional MRA of peripheral arteries. Magn Reson Imaging. 2000;18: 13-22.
18. Testi D, Zannoni C, Cappello A, Viceconti M. Border-tracing algorithm implementation for the femoral geometry reconstruction. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2001;65:175-18.
19. Weber DM. Absolute diameter measurements of coronary arteries based on the first zero crossing of the fourrier-spectrum. Med Phys. 1989; 16: 188-196.
20. Chan RC, Karl WC, Lee RS. A new model-based technique for enhanced small-vessel measurement in x-ray cine-angiograms. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2000;19:243-255.
21. Hoffmann KR, Nazareth DP, Miskolezi L, et al. Vessel size measurements in angiograms: a comparison of techniques. Med Phys. 2002;29: 1622-1633.
22. Adalsteinsson D, Sethian JA. A fast level set method for propagating interfaces. J Comp Physics. 1995;118:269-277.
23. van der Zwet PMJ, Nettesheim M, Gerbrands JJ, et al. Derivation of optimal filters for the detection of coronary arteries. IEEE Trims Med Imaging. 1998;17:108-120.
24. Shen Y, Barner KE. Fuzzy Vector Median-based surface smoothing. IEEE Trans Viz Comp Graphics. 2004;10:252-265.